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Imperial eyes : travel writing and transculturation / Mary Louise Pratt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pratt, Mary Louise, 1948- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European prose literature.
- Relations.
- Europe--Relations--Latin America.
- Europe.
- Europe--Relations--Africa.
- Latin America--Relations--Europe.
- Latin America.
- Africa--Relations--Europe.
- Africa.
- Latin America--Description and travel.
- Africa--Description and travel.
- Latin America--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Africa--Historiography.
- Imperialism.
- European prose literature--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : criticism in the contact zone
- pt. 1. Science and sentiment, 1750-1800
- Science, planetary consciousness, interiors
- Narrating the anti-conquest
- Anti-conquest II : the mystique of reciprocity
- Eros and abolition
- pt. 2. The reinvention of América, 1800-50
- Alexander von Humboldt and the reinvention of América
- Reinventing América II : the capitalist vanguard and the exploratrices sociales
- Reinventing América/reinventing Europe : Creole self-fashioning
- pt. 3. Imperial stylistics, 1860-2007
- From the Victoria N'yanza to the Sheraton San Salvador
- In the neocolony : modernity, mobility, globality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-268) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780203932933
- 0203932935
- Publisher Number:
- 99984749248
- 9780415438179
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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